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25 L. Q. Rev. 158 (1909)
Clan System Land Tenure and Succession Among the Baganda

handle is hein.journals/lqr25 and id is 160 raw text is: THE CLAN SYSTEM, LAND TENURE, AND SUCCESSION AMONG THE BAGANDA. B EFORE approaching the three subjects with which I propose to deal, it may be well to consider shortly who the Baganda are, and the nature of the constitution under vhich they live; such a course will, I think, tend to a clearer conception of the matters which it is proposed to discuss. The Baganda are a Bantu-speaking division of the negro race, living in that part of the Uganda Protectorate which is bounded on the south by the Victoria Nyanza, on the south-west by the kingdom of Ankole, on the west by the kingdom of Unyoro, and on the north and east by the Victoria Nile. Sir Harry Johnston in ' The Uganda Protectorate' states that the population is composed of three main elements. He considers that the country was first inhabited by people of the Pygmy- Prognathous type, and that they were followed by people of the West African Negro type, who constitute the main bulk of the population at the present time. I understand that he thinks the West African type has in Uganda been modified by Hamitic intermixture, both in ancient times and again more recently by union with the Bahima. The Bahima are a negroid race of cattle herdsmen who are supposed to have entered Uganda from the north-east, and who are akin to the Somali and Gala tribes of to-day and to the people who formed the basis of the population of ancient Egypt. Sir Harry Johnston considers that these people introduced whatever of the civilization of ancient Egypt has penetrated into Uganda and the western portion of the Protectorate. They constitute the ruling class in Ankole, Toro, and Unyoro, the countries which are the neighbours of Uganda in the south, south-west, and west. They seem to have maintained their domination to a larger extent in Ankole than elsewhere, and in that kingdom the Bairu, the original inhabitants of the country, are looked upon as the slaves of the Bahima. In Uganda, on the other band, although there are legends to the effect that the first kings of Uganda were Bahima, that race is no longer in any way dominant. The royal family and many of the Baganda have Hima blood in their veins, but the Bahima who

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